From DevCon 5 in Osaka, Japan, Deborah Simpier, COO and cofounder of Althea Network, describes how this decentralized internet service provider works, what problem it's trying to solve, and how it uses Ethereum. She describes how neighbors provide each other with internet access, and how they pay each other automatically on pay-as-you-go plans using a stablecoin. She also covers how she came to found Althea, what challenges she faced in explaining how it worked to her non-crypto neighbors, and Althea's plans to expand to other areas, including urban areas and Nigeria.
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Episode links:
Althea Network: https://althea.net/
Deborah Simpier: https://twitter.com/DeborahSimpier
Case study on Clatskanie: https://althea.net/clatskanie-case-study
Deborah’s talk at ETH Berlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD1tB0UFx78
https://breakermag.com/how-mesh-networks-and-crypto-can-fill-the-rural-broadband-gap/
Weekly news recap links:
IRS Guidance
IRS press release: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/virtual-currency-irs-issues-additional-guidance-on-tax-treatment-and-reminds-taxpayers-of-reporting-obligations
Guidance on hard forks and airdrops: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rr-19-24.pdf
Coin Center response: https://coincenter.org/entry/irs-cryptocurrency-guidance-answers-some-questions-while-raising-messy-new-ones
IRS scenario that never happened: https://twitter.com/valkenburgh/status/1182022188343418880?s=20
Marco Santori take: https://twitter.com/msantoriESQ/status/1181975909567475713?s=20
Patrick Murck take: https://twitter.com/virtuallylaw/status/1181997761811628038?s=20
Ethereum 2.0
The transition from Ethereum 1.0 to 2.0: https://ethresear.ch/t/the-eth1-eth2-transition/6265
Ethereum 2.0 cross-sharding composability: https://ethresear.ch/t/cross-shard-defi-composability/6268
Wired article on Facebook/Libra connections: https://www.wired.com/story/ties-bind-facebooks-libra/
Bitwise Bitcoin ETF Rejection:
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/42711/bitwises-bitcoin-etf-the-last-hope-has-been-denied
https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/nysearca/2019/34-87267.pdf
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bitwise-comments-on-the-secs-order-regarding-the-bitwise-bitcoin-etf-trust-300935107.html
https://twitter.com/BitwiseInvest/status/1182115344510402560?s=20
https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1182149164177608704?s=20
MakerDAO: https://blog.makerdao.com/breaking-launch-date-of-multi-collateral-dai-announced-at-devcon-5/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-10-05/crypto-rebels-trip-over-each-other-en-route-to-financial-utopia
https://unchainedpodcast.com/rune-christensen-of-makerdao-part-1-how-to-keep-a-crypto-collateralized-stablecoin-afloat/
https://unchainedpodcast.com/rune-christensen-of-makerdao-part-2-how-dai-stayed-at-1-while-eth-crashed-from-1400-to-85/
Placeholder on protocols: https://www.placeholder.vc/blog/2019/10/6/protocols-as-minimally-extractive-coordinators
Ali Yahya on why there will be multiple dominant blockchains: https://twitter.com/ali01/status/1181161407406071808?s=20
QuadrigaCX widow to pay $9 million to affected users: https://www.coindesk.com/quadrigacx-founders-widow-will-cough-up-9-million-to-repay-users
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